Evidence of Murder (Onyx) [Paperback]

Bill McClellan (Author)

Book Description

Series: Onyx | Publication Date: February 1, 1993

An account of the murder of Julie Post describes how Julie's husband, Ed, a successful real-estate dealer, abused both his wife and his children before murdering his wife in a hotel bathroom.

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From Publishers Weekly

This thorough but ultimately frustrating true-crime tale concerns Ed Post, a model family man and affable realtor in New Orleans, who was accused and convicted of drowning his wife, Julie, in a St. Louis hotel in 1986. McClellan, a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , reconstructs the complex investigation. Post claims the death was an accident, but police found his statement exhaustive and therefore suspect. Investigators learned that the couple argued regularly, that Ed faced rising debts and that Julie's insurance policy had been increased. But there was countervailing evidence: the Posts regularly upgraded their insurance; the medical evidence was inconclusive; and Julie's brother Bobby Thigpen, who claimed his sister feared her husband would kill her, failed a polygraph test. McClellan's detailed account of Post's trial borrows much from the transcript, showing how lawyers attempted to shade the evidence. After jurors found Post guilty of murder, his conviction was overturned because of misconduct by deputies regarding the jury. Post's family and friends, formerly his staunch defenders, then began to doubt his innocence, and testimony from Post's elder teenage daughter helped lead to another conviction and a life sentence. Though Post, who still claims his innocence, cooperated with McClellan, the author should have probed his subject's psyche more deeply. Photos not seen by PW.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 346 pages
• Publisher: Onyx; 1ST edition (February 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451403479
• ISBN-13: 978-0451403476
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #849,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best true-crime books I've ever read., October 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Evidence of Murder (Onyx) (Paperback)

McClellan has written a real page-turner. Ed Post talks too much. People roll their eyes when he says he drew his wife's bathwater--and then he found her dead, drowned in the tub...a real treat to follow the investigators as they put together the pieces of the puzzle. Very, very entertaining. I had trouble putting this one down!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD STORY, WELL WRITTEN, October 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Evidence of Murder (Onyx) (Paperback)

This is a riveting story, right to the very last pages! And it is written in a terrific, readable journalistic style that never quits. WHY do men (usually men) continue to commit "domestic crimes" and think they can get away with it? This is an unusual story in some ways because of the lack of any real evidence. Great reading!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It all adds up in the end..., February 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Evidence of Murder (Onyx) (Paperback)

Reading of crimes such as this, I cannot help but to wonder how many people get away with murders but disguising them as accidents. It is a chilling thought and this story was very well written.